‘I have asked myself so often why I should be a Poet more than other Men, – a seeing how great a thing it is, – how great things are to be gained by it – What a thing to be in the Mouth of Fame…’
To Leigh Hunt, 10 May 1817
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‘…several things dovetailed in my mind, & at once it struck me, what quality went to form a Man of Achievement especially in Literature & which Shakespeare possessed so enormously – I mean Negative Capability…’
John Keats
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